Question: How was the population of Carson City as 55274.0 determined?
Paraphrase: How did they determine the population of Carson City?
SPARQL (Wikidata): SELECT ?value WHERE { wd:Q40881 p:P1082 ?s . ?s ps:P1082 ?x filter(contains(?x , '55274.0')) . ?s pq:P459 ?value}